11. It installs Leopard.
10. Change the name to something really cool, like Vista Tekkister. 9. Comes with a lifetime subscription to WoW.
8. You get a piece of cake for each time it crashes.
7. They don't release it until it's finished.
6. Change Windows Genuine Advantage to actually provide you with an advantage.
5. They let Google code it.
4. Secretly replace code with Folgers crystals.
3. Free Tera Patrick screensaver with install.
2. Provide "DRM Stripper" software in place of Windows Media Player.
1. Send everyone an "I installed Windows Vista SP1 and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" shirt.
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This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by MechFighter: 02-20-2008 01:16.
Another significant fix appearing in SP1 is a partial resolution to the conflict between the MultiMedia Class Scheduler Service and networking. As we’ve talked about the issue a bit before, the Vista audio stack is now in user space, which has lead to a change in how it operates. MMCSS boosts the priority of multimedia processes to real-time levels so that lower-priority processes can’t interrupt multimedia playback. During this time many other operations are interrupted or delayed so that they do not themselves interrupt the audio stack. One area that is dialed back involves the network interfaces, which are limited to 10k packets per second as a precaution.
For SP1 we were hoping for a complete overhaul of the MMCSS so that it ceased adversely affecting network performance, unfortunately what we’re getting is something about mid-way towards that. With SP1 it is now possible to control the amount of network throttling that MMCSS does, which means that throttling hasn’t been removed completely nor has it even been adjusted as far as the defaults are concerned. A quick test with Microsoft’s NTttcp tool shows the throttling level remains the same post-SP1 as it was pre-SP1 (roughly 70Mbps on a 1000Mb connection), which means SP1 will not be bringing any immediate relief. Furthermore there’s no GUI component (or real documentation) for this tweak, so users will be left to directly modifying the registry, a very uninviting situation.
